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Articles tagged with: Radio Frequency and Analog
Worldwide Semiconductor Capital Equipment Spending to Decline 26% in 2008
A collapse in memory spending, combined with a weak economy, is driving a major contraction in semiconductor capital equipment spending in 2008, according to Gartner. The slowdown is expected to continue into 2009 before the industry recovers in 2010. more
Related Tags: semiconductor, driving, gartner, memory, foundry, test-equipment, pace
New kind of transistor radios shows capability of nanotube technology
..: an active resonant antenna, two radio-frequency amplifiers, and an audio amplifier, all based on nanotube devices. Headphones plugged directly into the output of a nanotube transistor. In all, seven nanotube transistors were incorporated into more
Related Tags: semiconductor, nanotube, benchmarking, seven, rogers, nanotubes
WiMAX Chipset Market to be Driven by Mobile PCs Through 2012
The emerging WiMAX chipset market will be driven primarily by embedded Mobile WiMAX in mobile PCs through 2012, reports In-Stat. WiMAX Customer Premise Equipment (CPE), external clients and dual-mode cellular/WiMAX handsets will also help drive WiMAX chipset volumes through 2012. Major players in the user terminal chipset space in 2007 were Sequans, Intel, Beceem, Runcom and GCT Semiconductor. more
Related Tags: semiconductor, mobile-wimax, in-stat, analog-devices, chipset, option, dual-mode
Samsung Develops Single-Chip RFID Reader for Mobile Phones
Samsung Electronics says that it has developed a single-chip radio frequency identification (RFID) reader for mobile phones. Embedded RFID reader chips can provide consumers with product or service information retrieved from RFID tags incorporated in items such as movie posters, clothing, and museums or tourist exhibits. more
Related Tags: rfid, samsung, memory, Korea
Consolidation Strikes the Mobile Phone Baseband Semiconductor Market
As the mobile-handset market goes, so goes the mobile-handset semiconductor market - and right now both areas are going through a period of consolidation that may lead to a significant winnowing of baseband chip suppliers, according to iSuppli. more
Related Tags: broadcom, ptc, semiconductor, beceem-communications, isuppli, bankruptcy, texas, stmicroelectronics, infineon, oem, freescale, chipset, mediatek, nokia,, wave, pace, marvell
TI Announces Low-Cost Multimedia Phone Chipset
Texas Instruments has announced a new OMAP-Vox single-chip solution to foster development of lower-cost multimedia-rich feature phones. Codenamed "eCosto," the new single-chip platform is leveraging TI's DRP technology which is successful with the "LoCosto" value platform in volume production today. The "eCosto" platform also leverages the multimedia capabilities of the OMAP-Vox platform in volume production today with the OMAPV1030 solution. more
Related Tags: texas-instruments, battery, java, gprs, cmos, 3d
3G Licenses Awarded in The Philippines
The Philippines telecoms regulator, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is understood to have awarded four 3G licenses to local companies. Existing GSM operators, Smart, Digitel and Globe have been awarded a license along with new entrant, Connectivity Unlimited Resources Enterprises (Cure). The NTC still has a fifth 3G licence that is expected to be awarded shorty - no details have been given so far to explain the delay. more
Related Tags: national-telecommunications-commission, ntc, 3g-licence, digitel, 3g-coverage, globe
GSM phones using Analog components
Analog Devices says that the first GSM phones resulting from a joint development program with Chinese manufacturer, TCL Mobile Communication have entered mass production after successfully completing GCF (Global Certification Forum) testing. A host of ADI's high-performance analog and digital signal processing chips enable advanced media features such as color displays, camera, games and polyphonic ring tones, with optional features such as Java, speech recognition, hands-free operation and GPRS data service. more
Related Tags: hands-free, du, gcf, tcl
New cdma2000 1X solution now sampling
STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments have created a flexible and open solution supporting the cdma2000 1X standard for wireless communications. Utilizing components from the wireless portfolios of both companies, the new cdma2000 1X solution provides a hardware and software platform that simplifies design while reducing power consumption, component count, board space and bill of materials (BOM) costs for handset manufacturers. The new solution offers an open-platform architecture that is unique among CDMA chipsets and combines features such as the industry's most advanced support for concurrent assisted global positioning system (A-GPS), along with highly integrated digital and analog ICs and direct conversion radio, providing manufacturers with the flexibility and choice to differentiate their products in the growing cdma2000 marketplace worldwide. more
Related Tags: texas-instruments, cdma2000-1x
Lucent launches indoor CDMA base stations
Lucent Technologies has launched two CDMA2000 base station systems. The Flexent CDMA Modular Cell 3.0 is the most recent addition to Lucent's range of CDMA base stations. This base station platform can incorporate power distribution and battery back-up within the base station, reducing the size of the cell site equipment footprint by 33% and can grow to support more radio frequency carriers, increasing capacity for mobile operators. more
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